Casually Crafting Design Team – Masculine Makes

Hello again and welcome back to the Casually Crafting blog hop! This month our theme is ‘Masculine Makes’.  With Father’s Day rapidly approaching it’s a great choice for this month!

Who are we?

The Casually Crafting Design Team are a group of Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrators that want to share our love of crafting with you all.  We will be sharing what we love every 3rd Friday of each month.  Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team’s creative projects using the photo links at the end of this post.

I hope that this post finds you all fit and healthy!  We are still in a state of lockdown as Corona Virus continues to plague the world!  I hope you are all coping OK with whatever limitation there are in your part of the world.  For me not much changes; I generally spend a lot of time in my craft room and continue to do so!  I’m making more cards than ever as my Etsy store seems to quite popular at the minute.

My husband continues to work in healthcare and both my children are still working as well – one in a call centre and the other in a grocery shop!  And as long as my fur baby has company he doesn’t mind if it’s in my craftroom or the kitchen!

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Since my last blog post there has actually been little to no rain and the summer seems to be well and truly on the way, I live in a small coastal town and the views are simply astounding with that in mind I wanted to do something nautical but I’ve been so busy that I quite simply ran out of time!  This post goes lives tomorrow morning and I found myself sitting staring at my stamp sets in a state of panicked crafting block.  So I cheated. Yep… I actually said I cheated, but at least I’m honest!  I went back to an old project that I did last year using the Come Sail away suite.

This remains one of my favourites from last years annual catalogue and I’m delighted that the stamp set and dies are hanging around for a while.  My project isn’t a quick one, it’s not particularly difficult but it does take some time.  I like to create items other than cards so this month I’m going to share a 12″ x 12″ sampler that I made.  Full disclosure  – there a couple of retired items but I always like to make sure my customers know that just because something disappears from the catalogue doesn’t mean they can never use it again!

A CALM SEA NEVER MADE A SKILLED SAILOR

My samplers generally have nine elements or panels as it works well for layout and interest in my opinion.  I used the Come sail away with me  designer series paper – I’m so sad it’s retiring! Whilst this project does use dies it honestly is not difficult, it’s not necessarily casual crafting maybe more like casually avid!

Probably the hardest part of a sampler is getting the layout evenly spaced before you stick all the panels down.  I generally start with the four corners and mark the centre and then fill in around them!  If you don’t fancy making a piece of home decor each of these little panels would make a great 3″ x 3″ card, all you need are bases and envelopes!

   

                                 

 

 

For my next card I used the stunning A Good Man stamp set, again I used the Come Sail away designer series paper, paired with night of navy card stock.  Whilst this sample does use the stitched shapes and layering cirlces dies you could easily replace them with a punched circle.  The images themselves are coloured using the Stampin’ Blends.  A relatively quick and easy card – and how fabulous is that sentiment!  It’s so true!

 

   

 

And finally another quick card using the same stamp set( and a little bit of retired designer series paper and washi tape – I make no apologies for using my retired stash because after all a stamp set and any crafting items are for life not just a season lol.

I again coloured using the Stampin’ Blends and finished off with some twine… if you look closely you will see I also used my sewing machine on this one… this is as about as good as my sewing skills get!  This card was cased from the 2019/2020 catalogue!

 

I hope you like the projects I’ve shared with you this month and I do apologise for cheating, I hope you will forgive me.  If you would like any more information on how to recreate these projects yourself leave me a note below or email me at littlethingsbyg@gmail.com.  Don’t forget to click through to the rest of team’s blogs to see what they have come up with for Masculine Makes! Until next time keep crafting!

 

Love and hugs Gillian xxx

CASUALLY CRAFTING DESIGN TEAM PHOTO LINKS

Click on the photos below to continue along this month’s hop from the rest of the Casually Crafting Design Team and don’t be shy about leaving comments we would love to hear from you!

Product List

Paper Trimmer

£23.00

Paper Snips

£9.25

Linen Thread

£4.75
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